(Sub)Culture Features

Patton Oswalt has had an insane two days, but really, the insanity began years ago. Michelle McNamara, his investigative-journalist wife, died unexpectedly in 2016, leaving the actor/comedian a single father and leaving her life’s work unfinished. Then Oswalt, along with a couple of McNamara’s colleagues, Billy Jensen and Paul Haynes, …

This is part of our user’s guide to legal marijuana across America. For only being the third year of legal cannabis sales in Oregon, the industry in the state has certainly established a singular style. When walking into the average dispensary, customers are accustomed to a fully-realized experience, where decor …

Some comedians break through with a particular shtick. Michelle Wolf has made her name by throwing tornadoes of precise punch-lines at everything from Wonder Woman’s lame lasso of truth to dating, rape, zits, periods, farts, Bill Cosby’s lazy eye, and her own resemblance to both of Hollywood’s Annies – the …

This is an adapted chapter from Caleb Hannan’s new Kindle Single The Accidents; read the full story here. When Dave Weaver first sat down with the file he wasn’t impressed. His bosses told him to work the case the same way he worked every other case, which meant to go …

For a long time, there were no marijuana brands. Cannabis growers spent so much time trying to conceal their identity from law enforcement and potential thieves that it simply made no sense to create distinctive packaging that would make it easier to track their product. Weed nerds might recognize strains, …

In the opening scene of the new documentary Meth Storm, DEA agents and Arkansas State Troopers pursue an alleged associate of Mexican cartels down a rural stretch of road. A trooper drives his cruiser into the left tail of the fleeing Toyota Coppola and forces the suspect to swerve left, …